Posted on 05/31/2007 12:31:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Releases Contact: Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami 202-226-7616 For Immediate Release 05/31/2007 Pelosi: President’s Announcement Fails to Respond to the Severity of Global Warming Crisis
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s call for an agreement to establish a global target for reducing greenhouse emissions:
“Having returned this afternoon from a bipartisan fact-finding mission to Greenland and European capitals that focused on global warming, I have to say I am disappointed by the President’s announcement today. After years of inaction and denial, on the eve of the G-8 Summit, the President has finally acknowledged the severity of the global warming threat and agreed that we need a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol that he has spent most of his Administration studiously ignoring.
“But today’s announcement fails to respond to the severity of the crisis that most of the rest of the world has long since recognized. Instead of fresh thinking, the President today just rehashed the same stale proposals he has repeatedly put forward to the international community. Technology transfers and voluntary emissions targets are not enough to reverse global warming.
“Yes, we must develop innovative energy technologies and disseminate them as rapidly as possible to both developed and developing nations. But the President fails to recognize that innovative public policies – featuring mandatory, market-based strategies to achieve significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions – are also essential to achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
“Far from being innovative, the President’s proposal duplicates activities already underway by the United Nations to build on the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The U.S.-sponsored meetings he proposes are likely to require considerable time and effort without advancing a new international agreement to address global warming.” Add to your del.icio.us del.icio.us Digg this story Digg this
talk about stale...
Nancy, Nancy, Nancy...this Global Warming thing is soooo OVER. Even the television tlaking heads are starting to snicker when they say it.
*sigh* They’re going to ram this down our throats.
They’re going to make us miserable, take lots of unnecessary action, and ruin the economy.
In 100 years, they will look back at all this madness and shake their heads at how stupid we are.
What, she hasn’t been either arrested for treason or taken down by a mutiny in her own party yet?
Will she be satisfied if he stands on his head or run around in circles waving his hands?
I still imagine the extraterrestrial archaeologist talking to his expedition leader:
Researcher: “Sir, as best we can determine, the race that lived here wiped themselves out about 4000 years ago when they artificially accelerated the ice age their planet was entering. It came on so fast, they had no chance to adapt food production or prepare their civilization or anything. It’s like they didn’t understand climatology or meteorology at all.”
she loves the word MANDATORY. A solution looking for a problem...
the President’s proposal duplicates activities already underway by the United Nations to build on the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
No matter how much Bush may concede, or compromise, it shall NEVER be enough.
Dealing with the Democraticans of the US Congress is like dealing with the old-time Soviets. Whenever the dispute seems to be resolving into their favor, they change the demands.
Queen Bee Nanacy learned well from the masters.
Correction: Having returned from a bipartisan sightseeing mission to Greenland and the European capitals.”
“The U.S.-sponsored meetings he proposes are likely to require considerable time and effort without advancing a new international agreement to address global warming.”
Addition: Of course our taxpayer-funded tour of Europe was fruitful and extremely important.
Shut your mouth Nancy, you are releasing way too much hot air.
So now that you libs are in control, Nancy, why don’t you just implement the Kyoto restrictions?
And by the way, Nancy, what have YOU done about global warming?
NASA administrator Michael Griffin is drawing the ire of his agency's preeminent climate scientists after apparently downplaying the need to combat global warming.
In an interview broadcast this morning on National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" program, Griffin was asked by NPR's Steve Inskeep whether he is concerned about global warming.
"I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists," Griffin told Inskeep. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."
Let me try and put this into simple terms you might be able to understand.
Mother Earth is going to do what Mother Earth wants to do, and there's not a *od damn thing you or anyone else can do about it.
"In order to satisfy the global warming folks, I'm ordering the immediate shutdown of all coal-burning power plants, ordering a ban on all motor vehicles using gasoline or diesel and banning all burning of wood products for heating".
They have no respect for a dollar. Global warming tax, billions to Africa, billions to illegals, etc.
Dunces. And "W" has turned out to be one of the bigger ones!
"In order to satisfy the global warming folks, I'm ordering the immediate shutdown of all coal-burning power plants, ordering a ban on all motor vehicles using gasoline or diesel and banning all burning of wood products for heating".
He should order the sacrifice of a virgin while he's at it.
The Democrats are dis-enfranchising sane people all over the country....
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